Best Garden Walls and attached former Cold Bath, Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens

Early-C18 garden walls with attached former cold bath of 1733.

MATERIALS: constructed of brick, the walls have brick coping stones.

PLAN: the garden walls enclose the Best Garden at its northern, southern and eastern ends, with the garden forming an area of approximately 0.7 acres in total. On the northern elevation of the north wall one of the rooms of the former cold bath survives.

DESCRIPTION: the walls are constructed in irregular brick bond and stand at approximately 3.5 metres tall with curved brick coping stones. The northern section of wall is punctuated by a large opening leading to the north garden and a further doorway at its western end leading to the former cold bath. The cold bath is rectangular on plan and leans against the north wall of the best garden. The building is partly ruinous and has no roof covering.

The eastern wall of the Best Garden flanks the hall and has an opening under a segmental arch both directly to the north and south of the hall, each with a brick pediment above. The southern wall is without openings and turns south to join the rest of the garden walling.